Cyber Law

The best way to fight cybercrime is with proper awareness: Experts

With the offenders in the country constantly evolving, corporates need to sharpen their security at equal speed.

Experts claim that cyber laws need to be updated to tackle new cyber security threats

Companies need to come up with out-of-the-box thinking and creative legal approaches while dealing with cyber law and cyber security challenges post-demonetisation, a legal expert said here on Thursday.

Showing sex determination ads is illegal: Here is why there is no full stop to this

Why does the court have to keep reminding search engines, time and again, to stop showing these sex determination test advertisements?

'IT Act Ineffective, Toothless,' Says Cyber Law Expert

India has of late witnessed a rise in cyber crime and experts attribute this to a "toothless" IT Act that has been ineffective in tackling the problem.

Cyber Crime Major Concern Area For Corporates

Need for a national-level agency to evolve a fine balance between cyber data protection and privacy of individuals

Video bloggers will now need a license to broadcast in China

Video bloggers in China must register their real identities before publishing anything online from January 1, the Ministry of Culture announced Wednesday.

Supreme Court takes on circulation of rape videos: Specific laws are missing

In a very welcome move, the Supreme Court of India is acting against the publication and dissemination of rape videos. This step was taken after the NGO Prajwala wrote to the Chief Justice of India, seeking action against the posting of such videos.

New laws and legislation should be formed to stop rising instances of cyber crime, says Supreme Court

The alarming rise in cyber crimes has warranted a preventive legislation to tackle the menace which in recent times also affected many of the government departments with the hacking of their websites, Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur today said.

Can Facebook be charged with the abetment of suicide?

The Tamil Nadu police are considering charging Facebook with the abetment of the suicide of a 21 year old woman in Salem.

Facebook's bias could land it in endless litigations around the world

Recent reports of Facebook’s bias against conservative news stories enlisted on its ‘trending list’ created a huge outcry online. The Indian equivalent of such a situation would be Facebook being found to be biased against one political party, suppressing news articles relating to it, while promoting stories of the opposing political party.